Quotes

Question 1

Wild grapes

Answer 1

• mortality

1. ”full of sour marsh abs broken boroughs”
   - negative gonna rations
   - alliteration
   - reference to line 1- repetition
2. “ who gave this bitter fruit their care”
   - oxymoron, juxtaposition
   - synaethsua

Question 2

Beach burial

Answer 2

• death
  1. “Enlisted on the other front”
• allusion to the after life
• stanza dedicated to death

2. Line 1,5,7,13 and 15
   - enjambment

Question 3

Gulliver

Answer 3

• pain
• based off “gullivers travels” by Johnathon swift- satire poem
  1. Line 14-15
• accumulation of human experiences

2. “What’s the use?”
   - rhetorical question- government tieing down society -motif

Question 4

Only ten

Answer 4

• self expression/ understanding of self
• Hussein is a refugee moving to a new school

1. “Hussein smiled back, “why not?”
   - rhetorical q, juxtaposition- free of judgement and predjuidec- human experience of coming into himself.
2. “He hesitated for a moment, then he pulled the purple tshirt over his head”
   - symbolic of trust.